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Spotted in the crowd in Edinburgh yesterday watching Scotland (or perhaps just van der Merwe) beat England. I regretfully observed no evidence of a Greggs sausage roll - neither in hand or the inevitable trail of flaky crumbs. Yeah, but it was a cute, funny, self-deprecating scene (from a Disney POV) - I liked it. I think a big attraction for this program was the alternative history approach - but as it diverges further from our reality it gets less interesting. a human coding error. I'd be curious to see what kind of error leads to -> Nuke LA. I liked it. There were liberties taken with the story and a hefty dose of modern sensibilities but I thought it was fun. Yes. Every now and then there will be something silly that people who like to be outraged will get outraged about but generally it's for the greater good. I like ballet & opera & Shakespeare and if it takes extra funding to get those out to the sticks and into schools then I think it's money well spent. It also supports the small stuff - which even if it looks amateurish and bit rubbish could well be the first steps for some peoples career and is a satisfying community activity for the others. Plus, every now and then someone produces figures to show that as an investment it returns it's value several times over in the UK's TV and Film industry and the tourist attracting Theatres - so you can justify in purely economic terms. It's one of those films that's always been around - at least it was on TV when I was growing up and there were only a few terrestrial channels to choose from. 1. John J. Pershing https://moviechat.org/nm0675434 2. Bernard L. Montgomery moviechat.org/nm0599728 3. doris miller https://moviechat.org/nm1181944/Doris-Dorie-Miller 4. Desmond T. Doss https://moviechat.org/nm3691984 5. Hideki Tôjô https://moviechat.org/nm0865692 6~ George S. Patton https://moviechat.org/nm0666567/George-S-Patton 7. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller https://moviechat.org/nm0700424 8. William Tecumseh Sherman https://moviechat.org/nm8813200 9. idi amin https://moviechat.org/nm0024907 10. King George VI: https://moviechat.org/nm0454377/King-George-VI I liked the cast well enough but the script was just a list of contemporary tick box tropes - all of which are laudable but they forgot to add an interesting story. Maybe they are just not very talkative and most of the time recording something as watched is all they want to do? It looks a bit odd but does no harm and personally I'd rather come across Slimone's posts than the click-bait phrased, wannabe contentious ones that litter the boards. I'm guessing there are several people lined up to try but we'll never really know which was the millionth - they'll just appear at the same time. They do tend to follow a template but I was wondering if it's just a way of recording/sharing films watched. Took me a few days to get around to watching it but I did enjoy the film and it wasn't predictable which was good. I liked Daphne Ashbrook in it as well. The only other time I can remember seeing her was a misguided attempt to reboot Dr Who where she was just about the only good thing in the show. It's funny but if asked to list the cast my first thoughts are the crew - Connery, Sam Neil, Peter Firth. It's after that I remember Baldwin - even though I liked him in the film. As I remember it was started by a couple of guys in the UK as a joke but was then blown up by the tabloids and taken seriously by some people - it became part of the Von Daniken, Chariots of the Gods, trend. When they stood up and announced it was us, plus some planks and string, a lot of people didn't want to believe them. I'm guessing it popped the bubble of that particular silliness and it dropped completely out of the mainstream. Only 5 - the ones that made it to the local cinemas. I'm guessing a few will become more accessible in the next few months and maybe I should make more of an effort to get to the nearest art-house cinema. Then again, there are quite a lot I'm just not interested in seeing anyway. I didn't know we had them in the UK. I remember them being discussed but I've never seen one - but then you wouldn't unless you were out drinking in certain areas and possibly only in London. They pop up on busy evenings in certain areas as pubs and clubs close for men who have had too much booze. A couple of my old favourites (some I had marked seem to have been taken down, ho hum) The Day The Earth Caught Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBHWWnzjDsI Enchanted April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcR76EhOdgc High Sierra (1941) - that's the first one I'd want to re-watch anyway.